15th century in literature
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[edit] Events
- 1403 - The Yongle Encyclopedia is commissioned in China.
- 1454 - Johann Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible
- 1478 - The Ranworth Antiphoner is presented to St Helen's Church, Ranworth.
[edit] New books and first printings of older books
- 1405
- 1410
- 1413
- 1420
- 1429
- Leone Battista Alberti - Amator
- 1434
- 1436
- 1450
- Reginald Pecock - Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
- 1453
- Antoine de la Sale - Petit Jehan de Saintre
- 1461
- François Villon - Grand Testament
- 1472
- Johannes de Sacrobosco - De sphaera mundi (written c.1230), the first printed astronomical book
- 1473
- Avicenna - The Canon of Medicine
- Sir John Fortescue - The Governaunce of England (first published 1714)
- Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, a wall calendar, the earliest known printing in Poland
- 1475
- Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges
- 1477
- William Caxton prints the first books in England on a printing press which he set up at Westminster in 1476
- Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, a translation by Earl Rivers
- History of Jason, a translation from the French of Raoul Le Fèvre by Caxton
- Bible in duytsche ("Delft Bible")
- William Caxton prints the first books in England on a printing press which he set up at Westminster in 1476
- 1478
- 1479
- Rodolphus Agricola - De inventione dialectica
- 1481
- Mirrour of the Worlde, a translation of 1480 by William Caxton, the first book printed in England to include woodcut illustrations
- The Historie of Reynart the Foxe (first English translation)
- 1482
- Mosen Diego de Valera - Crónica abreviada de España ("Crónica Valeriana")
- Euclid - Elements (in Latin)
- 1484
- Aesop's Fables, a translation by William Caxton
- 1485
- Joseph Albo - Sefer ha-Ikkarim (written before 1444)
- Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
- 1486
- 1487
- Niccolò da Correggio - Fabula di Cefalo
- 1489
- Marsilio Ficino - De vita libri tres (Three Books on Life)
- 1490
- 1493
- Giuliano Dati - Lettera delle isole novamente trovata, a translation into verse of a letter from Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand of Spain, regarding Columbus' first exploratory voyage across the Atlantic in 1492
- 1496
- Isaac Abrabanel - Ma'yene ha-Yeshu'ah
- 1498
- Polydore Vergil - Adagia
- 1499
- Thomas of Erfurt (mistakenly ascribed to Duns Scotus) - De Modis Significandi printed (written in early 14th century)
- Niccolò Machiavelli - Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa
- Fernando de Rojas - Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, better known as La Celestina
- Polydore Vergil - De inventoribus rerum
[edit] New drama
[edit] Births
- 1406 - Matteo Palmieri, Florentine humanist and historian (d. 1475)
- 1413 - Giosafat Barbaro (d.1494)
- 1453 - Ermolao Barbaro (d. 1493)
- c. 1460 - John Skelton (d. 1529), English poet
- 1485 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1553)
[edit] Deaths
- c. 1426 - John Audelay
- 1451 - John Lydgate
- 1454 - Francesco Barbaro
- 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory
- 1475 - Matteo Palmieri
- 1486 - Margareta Clausdotter
- c. 1490 - Lewys Glyn Cothi
- 1493 - Ermolao Barbaro (b. 1453)
- 1494 - Giosafat Barbaro (b. 1413)
